Phone calls from the Beach Club?

perd

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I have heard there are hefty fees for making phone calls from your room.

I am going to be at the Beach Club in October. I run a business and I am having someone take over for me for the week, but I would LIKE to take my laptop so I could help out a couple of hours a day and make sure the work doesn't get behind. This would involve being on the phone long distance for a couple of hours a day - but I pay 2.9 cents a minute so that's not a big problem.

My question is, if I dial out from my room am I going to be able to use my dial-around without a fee added to my Beach Club bill?

Also, what about internet service? Can I access the internet from the Beach Club? I would be sending my work via email attachment.

Thanks for any insight into this.
 
There is a per call fee for any call placed fromyour room of $.75. This is pretty standard at many hotels.
 
DH has to bring his laptops on our vacations to check his email. He does this at night when the kids are asleep, and this way he doesn't have to call in. He always wants to leave the laptop home, but I make him take it, since he has the time to check the mail and he isn't so crazy when he gets back! His office uses email haevily, and I have never worked in a situation like that, so I am always amazed when he gets 50-100 emails in a day.

There is a data jack on the phone that he plugs into. It always costs us $0.75 everytime he usues it. For our regular phone calls, we have cell phone that are nationwide long distance so we use those to make other calls.
 
It's .75 per call as long as you call a local number or 800#. Check with the hotel operator to make sure the number you have is local. Not all 407 #'s are local from WDW. I would also check with the front desk after you make your first dial-up to confirm that it was charged as local. There have been some horror stories of people with huge bills because they used a toll # (Kissimmee is toll from WDW).
 

Also remember that direct dialing to other WDW locations will also incurr a fee. When we want to direct dial a restaurant or Priority Seating, I dial operator and have her connect the call for no charge.
 
You can access the Internet, as long as you have an ISP with a number that will be local from WDW. You can do it if it's long distance, but it will cost a ton of money. Remember that each time you connect, it costs $.75, so do as much as you can each time you dial in.
 
Perd, if you have a Verizon cell phone and have the call America plan you can call using that phone, it worked in all the parks, hotels, resturants. I loved having the connection to my 85 yr old dad right at my finger tips. I even used it when the airport closed down for 2 hrs and we were stuck in th e plane, we were all given the go ahead to use our cell phones if we want untill further notice. :D
 
I guess I should have elaborated a little more. I would be using the phone line, but it would not be a regular phone. I do medical transcription, so I would be using what is called a C-phone. This is not a regular phone, but one that dials into my dictation system and into the hospital's dictation system and accesses reports that doctors have dictated. I have a headset and foot pedal that are connected to the C-phone and I hear the dictation through the headset and control the flow of dictation (play, rewind, fast forward) with the foot pedal.

So it would be an actual long distance call and cell phone wouldn't work since I have to use the cell phone. I do have Voice Stream for my cell phone service and it is nationwide, but for my work with the C-phone I will have to dial out through a regular phone line. Also, because of confidentiality, I really couldn't use a cell phone even if it were possible.

I wonder if I dial the hotel operator and ask her to connect me to my dial-around service, if that will work? I wouldn't even care so much that I had to pay a 75 cent surcharge each time I connect, as long as I could use my own dial-around long distance service.
 

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